Last month we were in San Francisco supporting Urban Re:Vision for a 2-day intensive design session to redefine the city’s Civic Center district using Re:Vision’s Unified Conceptual Framework which is currently guiding Re:Vision’s sister project, Re:Vision Dallas. To quote Mayor Gavin Newsom’s goal: “We are transforming our Civic Center into a global model for how [...]
I was just going through recent client/partner related blogs and found these thoughts from John Greenan’s CityWalk. Last week (on tax day) was the last day to register for the Re:Vision Dallas competition, the design competition for a sustainable city block that we are conducting in partnership with the City of Dallas, Urban Re:Vision and [...]
Dallas: the green frontier The 6th competition in a series, Re:Vision DALLAS is an opportunity to transform an existing city block in Dallas into a model of cutting-edge sustainable practices. We invite you to be part of this ground-breaking effort and help lay the foundation for sustainable urban design, as well as the opportunity to [...]
Freed: Design Competition Winner Will Build Actual City Block Chris Cheatham (Green Building Law Update) interviewed Eric Corey Freed last week and just posted the first in a 2-part series interview: My friends over at Sensible City recently offered me the opportunity to interview Eric Corey Freed. It’s not everyday I get to interview someone [...]
This week we are in San Francisco supporting Urban Re:Vision for a 2-day intensive design session to redefine the city’s Civic Center district using Re:Vision’s Unified Conceptual Framework which is currently guiding our sister project, Re:Vision Dallas. To quote Mayor Gavin Newsom’s goal: “We are transforming our Civic Center into a global model for how [...]
Re:Vision Dallas, the competition which gives creative urban design and community development professionals around the world a solid chance at creating America’s first fully sustainable innercity block, is sweeping social media around the world. Find out about it at www.revision-dallas.com. Enter the competition at www.urbanrevision.com. In addition to Italy, Serbia, United Kingdom, Brazil, Russia and [...]
Urban Revision will be launching Building Blocks, its international design competition which will determine the future of a fully sustainable city block, just a stones throw from City Hall in Dallas, TX. Plus, a 6-month lecture series TBD is in development. We’ll be steering the DC greenie/social media crowd to the LinkLive Inaugural Ball at the [...]
… just ran an interesting story which points out several exciting community programs, leading with Re:Vision’s fully sustainable city block in Dallas: Sustainable Community Concept Takes Hold in Texas, Georgia, Tennessee Oakland, Calif. — The drive to create communities that balance environmental, economic and social responsibilities through planned development is growing as shown by projects in [...]
Could the first fully sustainable city block in America rise out of a nondescript parking lot in downtown Dallas, Texas? After a full year of design competitions aimed at stimulating discussion about the nature of sustainability in cities, San Francisco-based Urban Re:Vision is about to transform theory into reality in Dallas. The land is available, [...]
Dallas, TX - December 2, 2008 — The City of Dallas will host a full-day “Design Charrette” this Friday to examine the necessary framework and community impact of what will become the first fully sustainable, urban square block in the United States. The Charrette, attended by community design and urban planning experts from across the nation, [...]
Our friends at Urban Re:Vision invite you to consider a red-nosed greeting this year… Proceeds currently go to Architecture for Humanity. Check it out: https://www.reindeergreetings.com/
From our friends at Inhabitat… Gunwook Nam’s Human Pump is a clever solution to the world’s water crisis that captures kinetic energy generated from human foot traffic and uses it to power a system of pumps that bring fresh drinking water to the surface in a playful, dramatic and life-saving waterfall. One of three winners in the Re:construct competition sponsored [...]
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